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bafe of the germe, and fometimes different 
kinds of fcales in the fame fituation, which 
are diftinctly fliown in Mr. Curtis' s plates 
of the h61cus mollis, creeping foft grafs, 
melica uniflora, fmgle flowered melic grafs, 
and melica caerulea, blue melic grafs, and 
are not difficult to be feen in the natural 
flowers. Though very minute, the leaves, of 
which the nectaries are compofed, may be 
feen at the bafe of the germe of the flowers 
of wall-barley. Thefe leaves nearly refemble 
the corol, but are lefs, and tranfparent ; they 
are named nectaries by Linneus ; but as they 
furnifli no generic diftinction, they are not 
noted in the characters of all the genera. The 
Slumber of ftamens, that will generally be 
found in thefe flowers, is three, with two 
piftils, within the fame cover. But there are 
exceptions to this rule, which mall be ex- 
plained prefently. The ftamens have three 
hair-like filaments with oblong anthers of 
two cells. The ftyles of the piftils are downy, 
bent back, with their ftigmas beautifully fea- 
thered, in fome ipecies large and branching, 
which, with the anthers waving on their long 
filaments, form a mofl elegant appearance; 
but their parts are fo delicate and minute, 
that 
